Improved whip-holder



A. w. JOHNSON.

Whip Holder. No. 95,482. Patented 0ct. 5, I869 [me/72w)",

N. PETERS. PHOTO-LITHOGRAFHER. WASHINGTON UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALBERT W JOHNSON, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVED WHIP-HOLDER.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 95,482, dated October 5, 1869.

To all whom it may concern: v

Be it known that I, ALBERT W. JoHNsoN, of New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have. invented a new and useful Improvement in Whip-Holders; and I declare the following to be a full and exact description thereof, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference thereon, making a part of this specification.

Figure 1 is a side View of my whip-holder with the interior of the barrel exposed. Fig. 2 is a plan view. Fig. 3 is aperspective view of the band-fastening.

Like letters indicate like parts.

Septem her 1, 1868, I procured a patent from the United States for a whip-holder, and the present application is for an improvement on the same.

The letter a designates the iron frame of the carriage-dash, covered with leather, as is usual.

It may be well to remark just here that this whip-holder is intended to be used on wagons, carriages, and the like, and a is the whip side of the iron frame of the dash.

The letter I) designates a baud-fastening, which embraces the side of the iron franieof the dash and fastens together through the leather of the dash by the screw 0 or its equivalent. It is not intended in this patent to limit the claim in the matter of the band-fastening to the precise kind shown or to the use of the screw 0, for there aremany equivalents therefor which will readily suggest themselves to any person desiring to really make use of this fastening and yet to evade the patent. It is also'obvious that this band-fastening is of use as well for securing a rein-holder to the frame of the dash as the whip-socket. This bandfastening has a fiat-faced projection upon one side, to which the socket is fastened by means of the fiat-faced projection d and the screws 6. "hese flat-faced projections d, of which there are two, are of one piece with one half of the barrel f. The barrel is round, hollow, and composed of halves, one of which is seenin Fig. 1 screwed together at g g.

The letter h designates the dish for the bottom of the whip, from which the wire '6 runs up into the barrel, and is headed by a piece of iron, j, which just slides up and down freely a curved slot, 0, into which the inner ends of,

the arms at fit and slide. These arms are pivoted to the outside of the barrel at n, and the eflect of this arrangement is that when the dish his pushed down by the butt of the whip the arms at in will be caused to open to grasp the whip, and when the pressure of the hand is removed the arms will instantly close and grasp the whip firmly. The same effect was produced by the holder described in my former patent; but the substitution of the web It with the curved slot for the two sleeves described therein is a great improvement. 7

I expressly disclaim any intention to claim as my invention the invention described in the patents of G. B. Morehouse, dated respectively August 16, 1864, and February 6, 1866, as his fastening does not pierce the leather of the dash, which mine does.

I claim as my invention-- 1. The web It, having the curved slots 0, one on each side, when used, arranged, constructed, and applied as described, for the purpose set forth.

2. The combination of the slotted web 70, having the curved slots 0 0, one on each side, with the arms at m, the whole being arranged, constructed, and operating as described, for the purpose set forth.

3. The band-fastening 1), whose rivet, or its equivalent, pierces the leather of the dash, when constructed, arranged, and applied as set forth.

4. The combination of the hand-fastening b, constructed and arranged as set forth in the preceding clause, with the barrel f, the whole being constructed as set forth, for the purpose set forth.

ALBERT w. JOHNSON.

Witnesses CHARLES W. BURR, CHARLES W. NORTON. 

